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With so many means of connecting with people around the world and many websites where you can make your own customized profiles to express your style, aesthetics and personality, it seems that one is really creating a virtual existence for oneself on the internet. With so much data about a person out there available online, is there any privacy left anymore? This kind of public information, though that there are options to not disclose the details, is unprecedented in the world of communications and technology.
The websites, like Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare tell us all if all features are used openly. It is almost like charting an online course of our life experiences and writing virtual autobiographies every day and every time we connect using one of these social networks. Have people become more open than they were once before? When there is so much openness, there are also people who would like to have a low online profile.
Such people won’t even disclose their genders and use fake names. This means that with such opportunities of communication, though attractive that they are, some people develop fears of being discovered and use them none the less to keep up with the world around them. They don’t want to be judged and they don’t want to further their presence online, other than just being there as they are in the real world with a mere existence and no involvement in the world around them.
